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Just yesterday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen publicly endorsed a proposed space project between Airbus, Leonardo and Thales, with the three satellite makers looking to create a rival to tech trillionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink. It might not be as good, but at least it won’t be owned by a man who names his children by smashing his face into a keyboard. Alas, the name for the proposed European firms’ space venture is Bromo, which sounds like being told to wait a minute by a man who’s really into crypto. Von der Leyen was speaking at the International Space Summit…
The European Union needs to “pin down” the precise scope of Ukraine’s growing budget needs before deciding how to fill the gap, Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis, who oversees support for the war-weary country, told Euronews. “We obviously need to do a proper, detailed assessment, but we understand that the war continues to rage at high intensity. If anything, Russia is intensifying its attacks,” Dombrovskis said in an interview recorded in Riga, Latvia. “Correspondingly, the economic situation in Ukraine is also very difficult. So we can understand that this may lead to higher financing needs for Ukraine,” he added. “There are…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 8:15 GMT+2•Updated 8:24 Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in New Delhi ahead of a meeting of BRICS group leaders, with global conflicts and economic challenges likely to set the tone for the weekend. Putin landed in the Indian capital on Friday, where he was greeted by Indian Minister of External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh and a welcome party flanked by photographers. The two-day summit is expected to see the 11-member organisation focus on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as oil and global trade. Chinese President Xi Jinping is also set…
Europe is facing a squeeze from two directions: more expensive energy and higher borrowing costs intended to contain the inflation that the same energy shock created. The European Central Bank raised its key three interest rates by 0.25% on Thursday, bringing the deposit rate to 2.5%. It is the second rate hike in three months, and the reason is visible on every forecourt in Europe. Brent crude climbed back above $100 a barrel on Wednesday as the conflict between the United States and Iran continued to disrupt traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The pressure is arguably sharper in gas,…
Anthropic said on Thursday it had blocked attempts by malicious actors to misuse its artificial intelligence models for cyberattacks, surveillance and biological research that could have contributed to weapons development. As AI models grow more powerful, sophisticated cyberattacks increasingly require little technical skill, meaning even lone individuals can now create threats that would have been impossible just a year ago, the company said. Anthropic added that it has strengthened safeguards in its newest models to restrict biological research with potential weapons applications. “The cases we share here aren’t typical misuse, but rather examples of the most notable and novel threat…
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Europe’s housing crisis has escalated to an “emergency”, as young people in many member states find it impossible to buy or even rent a home, European Commissioner for Housing Dan Jørgensen has told Euronews, adding that Brussels is taking the situation “extremely seriously”. Housing rental and purchase costs have become increasingly unaffordable across the bloc. European Commission data shows property prices across the EU have skyrocketed by roughly 60% over the past decade, while in the same period, average rents rose by over 20%. “Prices in many cities in Europe are way too high,” Jørgensen told Euronews’ flagship morning programme,…
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The company behind Claude has put numbers on its own disruption. Anthropic’s economics team released a technical paper and an interactive tool on Wednesday, modelling the economy as bundles of tasks that AI can leave alone, assist with, automate outright or create anew, then tracing what different rates of capability and adoption would mean for growth, wages and jobs in the US. The authors are explicit that these are not forecasts as the paper reads “the scenarios are not predictions and we attach no probabilities to them.” In the modest scenario, AI turns out to be a minor technology. GDP…
By Roselyne Min with AP Published on 11/09/2026 – 7:00 GMT+2 Tokyo’s streets could soon see a new kind of ambulance, one built not for humans but for humanoid robots. Japanese IT giant GMO Internet Group revealed a van designed to carry engineers, repair equipment, replacement parts and a spare humanoid robot to a site. The company says it is the first in Japan designed specifically for humanoid robot maintenance. “The humanoid ‘ambulance’ carries the replacement humanoid to the site and replaces it with the damaged humanoid,” said Shota Takizawa, an engineer at GMO Air. If repairs cannot be completed there, the damaged…